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‘O'Connor gives both analyses (intransitive verb and ellipsis of the object), and I think that the second one is probably right and the first one is probably not.’

‘Second, this version of the story corrects some errors in earlier versions, though it remains full of unanswered questions and strange ellipses.’

‘If something is in quotes in a news story, without any indication of ellipsis, it seems to me that it ought to be a genuine quotation, not a collage of fragments from which hundreds of words have been silently omitted.’

‘Here, he swaps the comforts of delicate Feldman inflections for darker textures or veers into confrontational exchanges pocked with unhinged ellipses and omissions - enough to tweak the typically unflappable Rowe.’

‘As Barbara suggests, if we change Representative Obey's ‘than it was’ to ‘than it did’ then his verb-phrase ellipsis makes sense.’

‘This sounds impressive, but one of the examples my ellipsis hides is ‘birds flying through trees.’’

‘The ellipsis indicates that a piece of additional supporting material has been removed from the main DVD blurb, leaving us with a truncated summary of the original concept.’

‘Fortunately, Ross provides in a footnote the relevant quotation from my chapter, which I've reprinted below, except with the ellipses he uses replaced with the actual text in bold.’

‘A concern to keep in mind when evaluating punctuation marks and other modifiers in digital type is unwelcome collisions and unresolved alignment between letters and brackets, braces, parentheses, quotation marks, and ellipses.’

‘However, an ellipsis indicates the omission of words which clearly show that the complete passage by Inglis Clark had nothing whatever to do with retrospective laws.’

‘The terms parenthesis, apostrophe, ellipsis, and appositive, which traditionally were rhetorical terms, have been relegated to discussions of punctuation.’

‘One of the most abused punctuation in casual English is perhaps the ellipsis.’

‘Then the numbers 1, 11, 2,…, where the ellipsis are filled by a sequence of 1's as needed, solves the puzzle.’

‘There are no ellipses or brackets indicating that substantive edits have been made to the interview transcript.’

‘And where did the ellipsis in ‘emotional examples of suffering… are good ways to illustrate economic statistic stories’ first appear?’

‘The ellipsis is a device long favoured by romance writers: three dots at the end of a sentence that say it all, as this old comedy sketch shows.’

‘The ellipsis is included to indicate the presence of the dramatic and disturbing pause.’

‘The ellipses serve a rhythmical function as well, indicating the ‘silence’ between phrases.’

‘In my manuscript I had his quote ending with an ellipsis, but the copy editor took out all ellipses in this section and put in periods, so I assume that it is in keeping with standard editorial practices.’

‘FYI, the ellipsis in the first sentence above replaced the word ‘mechanical’, which might have given away the dated nature of the text.’

‘I've tried to mark all other modifications with ellipses or brackets, but I'm sure I've made some mistakes.’

‘That's a pretty significant qualifier to eliminate with ellipses.’

‘This is very much like paraphrasing or adding an ellipsis in a sentence.’

‘When she puts a comma in a sentence, adds an ellipsis, uses a semi-colon, you can bet it's a punctuation mark that belongs wherever she puts it.’